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The handling of the no-preemption priority level imposes the restriction that we need to maintain the implied ordering even though preemption is disabled. Otherwise we may end up with an AB-BA deadlock across multiple engine due to a real preemption event reordering the no-preemption WAITs. To resolve this issue we currently promote all requests to WAIT on unsubmission, however this interferes with the timeslicing requirement that we do not apply any implicit promotion that will defeat the round-robin timeslice list. (If we automatically promote the active request it will go back to the head of the queue and not the tail!) So we need implicit promotion to prevent reordering around semaphores where we are not allowed to preempt, and we must avoid implicit promotion on unsubmission. So instead of at unsubmit, if we apply that implicit promotion on adding the dependency, we avoid the semaphore deadlock and we also reduce the gains made by the promotion for user space waiting. Furthermore, by keeping the earlier dependencies at a higher level, we reduce the search space for timeslicing without altering runtime scheduling too badly (no dependencies at all will be assigned a higher priority for rrul). v2: Limit the bump to external edges (as originally intended) i.e. between contexts and out to the user. Testcase: igt/gem_concurrent_blit Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190515130052.4475-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.